Solar Energy Industries Association

This presentation was developed by Katherine Stainken of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), and was used to educate members and nonmembers of the association on the benefits of SEIA policy advocacy activities focused on solar thermal. It is a good summary for those interested in the lobbying efforts of the solar thermal industry at the state level.

This presentation analyzes the state of the solar thermal market in the US in 2008. It was first presented at the 2009 Solar Thermal Roadmap Symposium hosted by the Solar Energy Industries Association.

This document is a fact sheet from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). It provides information on Concentrating Solar Power (CSP).

In policy lobbying even a single sentence included in a bill is, in some cases, already a huge success. This is exactly the case for the Energy and Water Appropriations Bill that has recently passed out of the U.S. House of Representatives. “The Committee supports ongoing Solar Heating and Cooling (SHC) research and development activities within the Building Technologies Program”, is the key sentence in the report that accompanies the bill.

This brochure explains the contents of the 10 Million Solar Roofs & 10 Million Gallons of Solar Hot Water Act that was introduced in the US Congress last year. The document was created by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).

This fact sheet was created by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), which is a solar energy industry trade association in the United States. It provides information on solar water heating in industrial, residential, and commercial applications.

This report was prepared by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) in 2007. It gives an overview on the status of all solar energy and the future of it in the US.

About 200,000 m² of flat plate and vacuum tube collectors were shipped throughout the US-American market in 2008, according to the annual statistics of the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The annual report was published in January 2010, four months later than announced.
Source: www.eia.doe.gov

On the 21^st of January, the Californian Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) finally approved the “California Solar Initiative (CSI) – Thermal Program”. The eight-year programme has a budget of US$ 351 million and is thought to financially assist home owners and proprietors of commercial buildings who replace natural gas or electric geysers with solar water heaters (see the final decision of CPUC attached).

This guide helps homebuilders make the decision to go solar for their customers. They discuss the economics and costs of installing a solar thermal or solar electric system to why their customers would prefer a solar hot water heating system.

When included in a new house, the cost of the system is included in the mortgage, and the monthly payments are small, to make a solar system an easier option to choose for the consumer. There is also a chart showing the cash-flow and savings of different types of solar technology.